Complaint leads to discovery of an illegal pet that grew way too big

Acting on a complaint, a police officer from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation went to a house to investigate someone who was believed to be in possession of wildlife as a pet.

Sure enough, when officer Jeff Hull responded to the house he discovered a 13-foot, 2-inch albino Burmese python caged in a tank no bigger than 5-feet long.

“The subject admitted to ECO Hull that he was not prepared for how fast the animal would grow and that he recognized he could...